A councillor has called for cyclists to give more respect to motorists.

Coun Robin Garrido told a transport meeting that the weight was often placed on motorists respecting cyclists - and suggested the reverse should also apply.

He said: “There is a lot about motorists treating cyclists with respect but I think cyclists should also treat motorists with respect.

“I would like to get a message out to cyclists to treat motorists with respect.

“There are things like crossing red lights, and crossing from the near side to the left hand side.

“I do think we ought to be telling cyclists to pay more attention to road users.”

Conservative councillor Garrido, who represents Boothstown and Ellenbrook in Salford and has been driving for more than 40 years, said he had personal experience of cyclists running red lights and cutting across cars.

He said he backs the measures to improve cycling across Greater Manchester, adding: “We have all seen situations were cyclists seem to regard traffic lights as not necessarily for them or road signs as not being for them so we need to increase training for cyclists as well as motorists.

“If we improve facilities it may have a knock on effect to improve the way we cycling.”

After the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee meeting Pete Abel, a volunteer with Manchester’s Love Your Bike campaign, said the greater responsibility has to lie with the ‘people driving vehicles that can kill people.”

He added: “All road users need to show respect to each other but it is car drivers that are responsible for the vast majority of deaths and injuries to other vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists and therefore they need to show a true level of respect for all vulnerable road users.

“People who drive one-tonne or 20-tonne vehicles have a higher responsibility because they are driving heavy vehicles with air bags that can kill people.”